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“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”

John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)

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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)

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“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)

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“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”

John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”

Rainer Maria Rilke quotes (Austro-German lyric poet, author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, 1875-1926)

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“The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning”

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“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”

Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”

Joan Borysenko quotes

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“If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do”

John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)

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